| Renault wins an environmental management prize
Following an award in 2005 for the eco-design of the Modus dashboard, Renault has won the "Environmental Management for Sustainable Development" prize from the French Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, one of the "2006 Companies and Environment" awards. This prize rewards Renault for the international deployment of its environmental management system, which aims to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment at every step in the vehicle life cycle by implementing special programs, training employees and making internal and external assessments. The award was presented by Nelly Olin, French Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, at the Pollutec exhibition in Lyons on November 28, 2006.
On November 28, 2006 Nelly Olin, French Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, presented Renault with the "2006 Companies and Environment" award in the "Environmental Management for Sustainable Development" category. This prize goes to companies whose environmental management fulfills sustainable development criteria and improves labor and economic performance. Renault won this year's award for the environmental management system it introduced a number of years ago.
For Alice de Brauer, Manager of Renault's Environment Plan, "this prize rewards all the men and women from the environment network for implementing environmental management throughout the Renault group and across the entire life cycle of its vehicles". Receiving the award, she said, "since 1999, more than 50,000 Renault employees have been trained on environmental issues. Today, more than 90% of the Group's production sites have received ISO 14001 certification, and this certification is also planned for the new acquisitions in Russia and Iran."
Environmental management at Renault: a global approach and measurable progress
Renault is fully aware of environmental issues such as climate change, waste treatment and the depletion of natural resources, as it is of the role it has to play in this area. Renault introduced an ambitious environmental policy in 1995, based on the following key actions.
- Making environmental analysis, site by site and product by product. To enhance the way it reduces the environmental impact of its vehicles, Renault makes environmental analyses at all the world sites of the Renault, Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors brands. Renault also conducts Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for all its vehicles, precisely identifying their environmental impact, from the extraction of petroleum and natural resources to production to logistics to use by the customer and to vehicle recycling.
- Designing and implementing programs that meet impact-reduction targets. To guarantee efficient environmental action, Renault works with its suppliers to obtain results on sustainable development. But it also works at the other end of the chain, through its involvement in deploying collection, dismantling and recovery services in order to recycle a wide range of materials used in the design of new vehicles.
Quantifiable results for these endeavors enable Renault to measure the progress made. For example, in ten years the amount of energy needed to produce a vehicle has been reduced by 25% and the amount of water by 57%. At the same time, CO2 emissions have been cut by an average 32 grams per kilometer, while vehicles are now 95% recyclable.
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